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Lightning Talks on TV?

A few months ago, Ryan Yewell from the Lab with Leo Laporte dropped me a note to see if I was interested in presenting a segment on the show. Each segment is about six minutes - about the same length as a lightning talk.
While I've been mostly out of town when they've been shooting, I [...]

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Confiscated Knitting Needles

It had to happen eventually… when I was going through security at the Helsinki airport today, they took away my Addi Turbo circular needles as being too dangerous to bring on the airplane.
The needles have made it through American, Canadian, Dutch, German and Norwegian security - who would have thought that the Fins would have [...]

Old Notebooks

Mandy and I were working together on some accounting for Foo Associates earlier today. We were scratching down notes in an old notebook when I ran across some old bits and pieces from my days at MySQL - random lists of tasks, flight schedules, doodlings and this little snippet of text under the hotel address [...]

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Travelocity Overrun by Gremlins

http://travelocity.ca has always been a bit of a warty, grumpy service. If you visit it using platforms other than the Windows + IE, it grumbles, threatening to lose your reservation, displaying ugly gaffs in its styling or, in rare instances, randomly serving up sessions other than your own.
For the most part, the travelocity.ca's flaws [...]

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PHP Vikinger

eZ publish lives and dies by PHP. When all is right in the PHP world, it makes our lives a lot easier at eZ systems.
Given that PHP doesn't cost a thing and we only employee a few PHP hackers, we wanted to show our gratitude to the PHP community for its awesome work over the [...]

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Looking for a flight home

…and just found a trip from Hamburg to Calgary for 650 Euros that takes 49 hours and 10 minutes!!!

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Traveling from Brussels to Cologne

FOSDEM finished up a few days ago and the MySQL dev meeting after FOSDEM is now complete as well.
Brian, Monty and I woke up far before the dawn. Brian and Monty had a flight to catch and I was planning on going by train from Brussels to Hamburg.
Now, some hours later, I am on a [...]

Back in Germany

Just after dawn in Frankfurt. After spending 9 hours flying from Dallas to Frankfurt with a group of German tourists with food poisoning, I am glad to get off of the plane. I suppose that the tourists were much more grateful to get on the ground than I. Spending the majority of a nine hour [...]

Escape from LA

I admit that I was glad to be leaving LA - I am still not comfortable in the city. Flying away from the area at night was interesting - from the air the region looks like some sort of deep-sea-scape.

After a 10 hour flight, I arrived in Frankfurt. I really have to start being able [...]

SoCal Linux Expo

Woke up at 6 to get ready for the SoCal Linux Expo. Joe from eLinux came along as well and was kind enough to pick me up at the hotel. We arrived in quite early for the expo and spent some time chatting with other attendees. When the show opened, we went down [...]